If economic progress means that we become anonymous cogs in some great machine, then progress is an empty promise. — Charles Handy Copy Share Image
I was just a screw or cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
I surrendered my moral conscience to the fact that I was a soldier, and therefore a cog in a relatively low position… — Otto Ohlendorf Copy Share Image
“The reality is that in the business world almost everyone is just a very small cog in a huge collection of cogs.2… — Steve Krug Copy Share Image
Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soars or flutters and wobbles. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Religion, politics, society are exploiting you, and you are being conditioned by them; you are being forced in a particular direction. You… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
A company is people … employees want to know… am I being listened to or am I a cog in the wheel?… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
In exiling myself I am not exiling a monster, but a man whom society will not allow to live, since it considers… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
“The flower inside the fruit that is both its parent and its child. Decadent as ancestors. The portal and that which passes.… — Ronald D. Moore Copy Share Image
Religion, politics, society are exploiting you, and you are being conditioned by them; you are being forced in a particular direction. You… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Women get the short shrift in history. It's been largely written and dictated by men, or at least men believe that we… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
Time and times are but cogwheels, unmatched, grinding on oblivious to one another. Occasionally - oh, very rarely! - the cogs fit;… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
I'm worried that students will take their obedient place in society and look to become successful cogs in the wheel - let… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
We need adventure, we need meaning, we need identity. We need love. Someone who has seen us through loving eyes has awakened… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
. . . freedom to creat and construct, to wonder and to venture. Such freedom requires that the individual be active and… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant, "What good is it?" If the land… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
I think that very often younger writers don't appreciate how much hard work is involved in writing. The part of writing that's… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Our children should learn the general framework of their government and then they should know where they come in contact with the… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A God who kept tinkering with the universe was absurd; a God who interfered with human freedom and creativity was a tyrant.… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
There's a huge difference between being a replaceable cog on the assembly line and being the one who is missed, the one… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
a samurai is a total human being, whereas a man who is completely absorbed in his technical skill has degenerated into a… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
Without writing, what would I have become? Nothing. In China the individual used to be treated as a screw or a small… — Ha Jin Copy Share Image
Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence — Deborah Tannen Copy Share Image
Sometimes, when you do the music for a play, there are very clear boundaries as to what needs to be achieved. You're… — Richard Dawson Copy Share Image
Okay - the world needs its cogs, all of them; and even a cog may say how it gets used. In fact,… — Keigo Higashino Copy Share Image
Vocational training is the training of animals or slaves. It fits them to become cogs in the industrial machine. Free men need… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
I like being a cog in a wheel. I like being a small aspect of a much bigger thing, and I think… — Charlize Theron Copy Share Image
An automobile goes nowhere efficiently unless it has a quick, hot spark to ignite things, to set the cogs of the machine… — Knute Rockne Copy Share Image
Try to find your individuality, your integrity, and make the effort of not compromising. Because the more you compromise, the less you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
A workman is not just a workman. A laborer is not just a laborer. An office worker is not just an office… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
Traditional corporations, particularly large-scale service and manufacturing businesses are organized for efficiency. Or consistency. But not joy. Joy comes from surprise and… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
I only wanted to be a good employee who generated as much profit as possible for his employer. I was merely a… — Jerome Kerviel Copy Share Image
In spite of its glowing talk about the welfare of the masses, Communism's methods and philosophy strip man of his dignity and… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
What makes Disney movies and Pixar movies always so good, hey take time and they're constantly honing, and tweaking, and rejiggering things,… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
Peope, especially unhappy people, want a cause. They want something to belong to, to be a part of something great and bigger,… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
But the fact is, Mr. Chairman, for all the challenges the Postal Service of the 21st century faces, it still retains its… — John M. McHugh Copy Share Image
The definition of a limit is essentially his [Cauchy's] creation and is as much of a miracle as those fantastic Swiss clocks… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
“We overestimate the power of people who become cogs in giant organizations. The fact that they become cogs actually limits what they… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
It's great to be able to play the bad guy role because you always get a lot to do, but I'm always… — Jimmy Smits Copy Share Image
Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to… — Deborah Tannen Copy Share Image
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